Author: Mari Martinez
IPAC Short Briefing No.3: COVID-19
COVID-19 AND THE MUJAHIDIN OF EASTERN INDONESIA (MIT) Click photo to visit the IPAC website This short briefing explains how MIT recovered, why it saw the emergence of COVID-19 as a chanceto attack its enemies and what the future of MIT could be in Poso. The immediate concern is the possibility of new attacks during […]
IPAC Report No: 63
STOPPING ABU SAYYAF KIDNAPPINGS: AN INDONESIAN-MALAYSIAN CASE STUDY To visit IPAC website, click image The best hope for reducing kidnapping and terrorism in the Sulu Sea may lie in the domestic policies of the three countries involved – Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. Improving transnational information-sharing is still essential, but each country has much homework to […]
IPAC Report No: 62
LEARNING FROM EXTREMISTS IN WEST SUMATRA To visit IPAC website, click image “The West Sumatra study calls into question the wisdom of the Indonesian government’s approach of treating radicalism as a problem of insufficient nationalism, curable by indoctrination in the state ideology, Pancasila,” says Sidney Jones, IPAC director.
IPAC Report No: 61
THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF SALAFISM IN MUSLIM MINDANAO To visis IPAC website, click image The puritanical stream of Islam known as Salafism is making major inroads in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in the southern Philippines, in a way that could foster greater social conservatism in areas such as education, freedom of […]
IPAC Short Briefing No.1
COVID-19 AND ISIS IN INDONESIA To visit IPAC website click image Prison administrators, fearing an outbreak of COVID-19, have suspended visits and made otheradjustments, but the potential for prison unrest is high, as has happened in other countries hit by thevirus. Indonesia urgently needs procedures in place to handle violence or attempted escapes occur.”
IPAC Report Short Briefing No: 2
COVID-19 and Conflict in Papua To visit IPAC website click photo The virus arrived in Papua as tensions left over from deadly communal violence in August-September2019 remained high, and pro-independence guerrillas from the Free Papua Organisation (OrganisasiPapua Merdeka, OPM) were intensifying attacks in the central highlands.”
Fall 2020 Southeast Asia Course List
Summer & Fall 2020 Southeast Asia Course List is Here! These are the courses with a Southeast Asia focus or relevance which will be offered during the Spring 2020 semester at UH Mānoa. Some information may be TBD; the course listings may be more current. See the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa academic calendar for registration […]
Thai Music Ensemble Pau Hana Concert December 2019
UHM Ethnomusicology Ensembles Pau Hana Concert December 2019 Ben Fairfield partnered with UH Choir director, Jace Saplan, and provided the percussion (instruments made in class, of course) for a choral arrangement of “Phu Yai Lee” (A classic Thai protest song from the 1960s that is still played and referenced in today’s Thai political discourse). All […]
UH Moving Summer Courses Online
In light of the COVID-19 health crisis, UH Manoa Outreach College iscommitted to ensuring the safety of our students while continuing to offera robust schedule of courses during Summer Sessions 2020. Accordingly, 1) Summer Session classes that are held between May 26 and July 3, will beonline only, and2) Summer Session classes between July 6 […]